AMD will invest over US$10 billion (A$14.03 billion) into Taiwan’s artificial intelligence industry, it said today, with the goal of raising its capacity to build advanced chips.
The company is working with Taiwan-based semiconductor assembly firms like ASE, SPIL, and PTI to develop its next-generation chips. Taiwan is the home of chip manufacturers, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and Foxconn.
“As AI adoption accelerates, our global customers are rapidly scaling AI infrastructure to meet growing compute demand,” said AMD CEO and chair Lisa Su.
“By combining AMD leadership in high-performance computing with the Taiwan ecosystem and our strategic global partners, we are enabling integrated, rack-scale AI infrastructure that helps customers accelerate deployment of next-generation AI systems.”
These Taiwan investments will support the release of AMD’s Helios rack-scale AI platform in 2026’s second half, the company said.
It is collaborating with Taiwan-based original design manufacturing partners Sanmina, Wiwynn, Wistron, and Inventec to build Helios-based systems.
AMD also said yesterday that its next-generation Venice processor is ramping up production in Taiwan, using TSMC’s 2-nanometre process technology.
Shares in AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) closed 0.5% higher at $449.59, and rose a further 0.7% after-hours. Its market capitalisation is $733.10 billion.
